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Thursday, August 21, 1980
THE BASTROP ADVERTISER AND COUNTY NEWS
Page 11
All Around
Bastrop County
SV schoolmen doubt rooms ready by Sept. 2
By MARK HAMPTON
Despite assurances by
Architect Chuck Leonard,
school officials in Smithvillt*
expressed doubt that the
Marv Brown Elementary
School would be ready to
receive students when
school starts September 2.
The Mary Brown School
has undergone extensive
renovation this summer.
Speaking about the class
rooms. School Board Bresi
dent Warren Jackson said. '1
am concerned that they will
be ready."
Mary Brown School Brine
ipal Robert W. Haley said, “I
don't believe that they will
be ready."
During the architect’s
report to the board, Leonard
stated that he had talked to
the contractor for the job
and had been assured that,
"the building should be
substantially finished by
Monday, August 25," the
contractual completion date.
Leonard also presented to
the board a change order
estimate by the contractor,
Frank Bohlman of Schulen
burg. The change order,
which was approved by the
board, called for the installa
tion of new air conditioning
units and deletion of
ventilation equipment. Orig
inally, the board had been
told that the move would
save the district money.
However, the change order
approved Monday night
increased the cost of
renovation by $4,575.
Other details remaining to
be finished on the project
include installation of floor
ing and restroom fixtures
and painting,
In a related move the
board approved warrants of
indebtedness that will be
sold to cover the $180,000
cost of renovating the Marv
Brown School. The nine
warrants, each with a value
of $20,000, will mature one
per year for the next nine
years. Each warrant carries
an interest rate of seven
percent and will be repaid
out of delinquent tax
revenues.
AMENDED BUDGET
The 1979-80 school year
did not cost the district quite
as much as had been
anticipated. An amended
final budget for last sehhol
year was presented to the
board hv School Superinten
dent I Ion Hestand.
The expected cost of
running the school district
had been $1,902,132, the
actual cost ran $1,761,780.
According to school records,
the savings were primarily
in expected capital outlay for
facility acquisition and con
struction.
New charges, to be levied
on band students, were
approved by the board. The
new charges are $15 for
instrument rental and $20
for uniform maintenance. In
addition, students will bear
the full repair or replace
ment costs for instruments
damaged through negli
gence.
A request to lease central
school facilities by Combined
Community Action of Smith
ville was tabled for a second
time by the board. The
reason for tabling the re-
quest was a clause in a lease
agreement, proposed by
Combined Community Act-
ion, that they be allowed a
three year lease with an
option at the end of the three
years to renew the lease for
another three years. The
option, according to the
proposed lease agreement,
would be solely at the
discretion of Combined Com-
munity Action. President
Jackson instructed Superin
tendent Hestand to inform
Combined Community Act-
ion Director, Steve Quitta,
that the board “will not go,
with this.” The request was
placed in abeyance until the
lease agreement could be
worked out.
In other action, the board
voted to raise the pay for
substitute teachers from $20
to $25.
County gets deficit budget
Bastrop County Commis-
sioners Monday voted to
adopt;
* a 50 percent ad valorem
tax assessment increase over
last year.
« a total tax rate of $1 per
$100 of assessment.
* a $56,356 deficit in the
General Fund Budget for
fiscal 198081, beginning Oct.
1.
Since the Commissioners
Court has approved cutting
the current fiscal year three
months short to begin a new
one Oct. 1, the general fund
will start the new year only
about $17,000 in the red.
county auditors estimated.
County Judge Jack A.
Griesenbeck warned when
the 1979 budget was adopted
that county spending could
exceed income some $200,000
by year's end.
To make the budget
balance on paper, auditors
indicated they are estimating
only about $39,000 income
from sources they cant
project. In effect that's a
projected income shortfall of
$39,000 in the 198081 budget.
Added to the $17,000 deficit
at the beginning of the year
will leave the county some
$56,000 short at the end of
the 198081 fiscal year.
“We should have raised
taxes last year" to avoid
running short of money,
repeated Griesenbeck.
In another move to shore
up the county’s sagging
finances and grant a 7
percent pay hike to county
employees, commissioners
have also trimmed to 4
percent the amount of ad
valorem taxes salted away in
the Bermanent Improvement
Fund. The percentage has
been higher in past years.
That should amount to
some $32,000 next fiscal year,
estimated auditor Doug
Wilkins. Commissioners ex
pect to pay out of that fund at
least $30,000 next year for
their share of a new bridge at
Bastrop's Main Street and
Biney Creek.
The city plans to contribute
a like amount to the project.
Federal money will finance 80
percent of the estimated
$300,000 cost.
Budgeted capital outlays
for the year come to only
$20,750, including $12,000 in
records restoration in the
Firemen plan location aid
I County firefighters pUn to
begin in January using a
"grid system" adopted from
the Texas Forest Service to
pinpoint the location of rural
fires.
Meeting last week, the
County Firefighter Associa
tionaproved the new system
but agreed to delay imple-
mentation until new elected
officials take office in
January.
Bastrop hire Chief Carl
Spooner explained that the
location device consists of a
svstem of numbered grids
imposed over a map of the^
county. It resembles military’
location techniques, he said.
The system has been in
use for some time by the
Texas Forest Service to
pinpoint brush and forest
fires.
Once grid maps art*
distributed and familiar to
firemen and dispatchers,
territorial responsibility can
be redivided among the
county’s fire departments
using the new maps,
Spooner indicated.
County Clerk’s office.
The total budgeted spend-
ing approved Monday comes
to $1,468,457 for 198081.
Last year's adopted bud
get was over $1,310,000,
noted Griesenbeck.
Wilkins estimated the
198081 tax levy at $758,719.
Tax hills for *1980 will be
mailed in the fall.
A balanced budget every
year “is the wisest way to
go," outgoing auditor Larry
Roberson counseled the
court. Following 1980’s 50
percent tax hike “modest
increases in the future should
cover the cost" of inflation
and any new or expanded
services, he said.
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Deluxe Granadas and gas-saving Fiestas now in stock.
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GRANADAS have air, 6 cylinder automatic,
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Elgin funeral set
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Cedar Creek
reads the Classifieds
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FIESTAS have air, sports decor group,^
German built for fuel economy. FIESTA 3-DOOR
Extended warranty good on these cars for 3 years.
Offer good through end of August
BASTROP FORD
Li
Boliee have identified the
nan who died in Elgin on the
MKT railroad track about
3:30 a.m. Sunday as Aquilino
Dias Montalvo, 26. of Rt. 1.
Box 201. Elgin.
Montalvo's Tee shirt was
recovered from the freight
train engine after the train
ipparcntly struck him. sever
ng one arm from his body,
recording to Elgin Boliee.
Boliee Chief Dan Gibson
reported that Montalvo had
been seen drinking in local
bars until the 1 a.m. closing
Lirtie. He had been employed
is a plumber’s assistant,
Gibson speculated that
Montalvo may have been
Sitting or kneeling on the
tracks when spotted b y an
MKT engineer. Efforts to
brake the train did not
prevent a collision, he said.
Graveside rites at the Elgin
Latin Cemetery south of
Highway 290 were set for
Tuesday.
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 21, 1980, newspaper, August 21, 1980; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth736266/m1/11/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.